On 8 May 2011 00:29, Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> wrote: > Hiyas, > > I do recall one of the Lubuntu guys some time back saying that he had access > to some older computers from within the UK (Shipping charges from abroad are > prohibitive). > > Sii http://www.thesii.org/ (I'm sorry it is not fully done, I am still > awaiting the full charter in USA for it being a registered institute under > Rule 1 and 3 of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization#United_States ) > > They are looking for about 6 computers that could run XP (that is the spec, > not the OS!) , they need not be the highest class in the world as they would > be joined together in a little server cluster. I've forgotten who it it said > who could source some. My parents [1] will pay the collection of them and > delivery as long as you package them up well to go through the parcel > system. > > Oh, and by the way, these are the same parents[1] stumping up the $250 - > $500 for the installation of a new area on a dedicated server for any ubuntu > team to use (Heck, it was only about $14,000 for the 10 year deal [Derrick > bought that] on which there will be a ubuntu 10.04LTS server fully hardened > (by bodhi). > Along with teaching areas for free whilst you are learning. It costs an > horrendous $15 / year once you make a profit. We may have been 'bumped' > upstream, but as a team we want to help. > > @UK, anyone got some some spare kit? > > > If any one as has any further questions please feel free to ask. > > Thanks, > > Phill. > [1] A commercial site that all of the F/OSS people helped me on and I > eventually got to http://mgjuddltd.co.uk/conformance.php
Spare, no. But if you can afford a very small amount, try this eBay vendor: http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/computerdisposalsltd/ He has a whole bunch of machines like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fujitsu-Siemens-Celsius-R610-Xeon-3-06GHz-648MB-RAM-/270743834477?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item3f09970f6d ... for just £30, and for even less: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Precision-530-Workstation-Xeon-1-7Ghz-512MB-RAM-/270744240408?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item3f099d4118 ... for £20. These are really good PCs for the money. They will run full Ubuntu very well indeed. If you want a cluster, he also has dual-processor servers with 2GB of RAM for £30. Excellent value, I'd say. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
